Senior People Culture Partner (Sport)

Job description
Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role...

As a Senior People Culture Partner at Warner Bros. Discovery, you’ll be at the heart of shaping the future of WBD Sports across the UK and EMEA. This is more than a traditional HR role — it’s a unique opportunity to influence culture, drive transformation, and partner with senior leaders to deliver meaningful impact in a fast-paced, global media business.

You’ll act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to business leaders, guiding them through complex organisational change, talent strategy, and cultural evolution in the wake of our recent merger. Your work will directly support the growth and success of our people and business, ensuring alignment with WBD’s global vision while tailoring solutions to local needs.

With a strong focus on collaboration, you’ll work closely with colleagues across the UK, EMEA, the US, and beyond — connecting the dots between global strategy and regional execution. You’ll champion diversity, equity, and inclusion, and play a key role in embedding these values into the fabric of our teams.

This is a role for a bold, forward-thinking professional who thrives in ambiguity, embraces change, and is passionate about building high-performing, inclusive cultures.

Your Role Accountabilities...
• Be a trusted and strategic partner to senior leaders, proactively partnering with them on all people related matters.
• Develop close working relationships and understanding of business goals and facilitate people and organisational solutions which support the business effectively.
• Partner with leaders on organisational changes, ensuring we are legally compliant and act as a true partner; questioning, constructively challenging and advising.
• Proactively and positively support initiatives and organisation changes to align with the wider WBD business, including local changes to align with the global vision for the future success of the business.
• Partner with the Specialist PC CoE teams to provide relevant and value adding proactive support and solutions.
• Support the development of a best-in-class PC team by analysing processes as we live them – provide feedback to CoE teams where needed to constantly improve our operating model.
• Know your Top Talent across your client groups. Facilitate calibration sessions, conversations, development opportunities and retention strategies for our Talent on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications Experience...
• A highly experience business partner who is able demonstrate prior experience of business partnering up to executive level in a fast-paced, high change, matrix environment.
• Previous industry experience and supporting sport will be advantageous.
• Commercial awareness – curious about the business areas you support (and the wider business) to maximise your influence.
• Collaborative – able to partner with centres of excellence to develop and implement initiatives that develop capability and culture.
• Able to make sound and prompt decisions as well as connect the dots between different functions to challenge assumptions and improve efficiency and effectiveness for the business.
• Able to lead projects and change programmes within your client groups and wider as required.
• Able to exercise a level of independent judgement and make sound decisions that enhance business performance, often with little direction while ensuring you comply with laws and regulations.
• Demonstrate the capability to self-prioritize and manage a complex and changing workload with the ability to meet changing and varying deadlines.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills.

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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